Those who are fond of WordPress can look forward to an amazing offer. ThemeFuse has launched its own website scheme. With this new scheme, customers who purchase a hosting plan for a period of one year get the opportunity to use a domain name for free. The ThemeFuse team will finish the set up, and you […]

When talking about domains, .com, .org, .edu, and .gov are the ones that we usually hear about. But what about CcTLDs, or Country Code Top-Level Domains? These domains are specific to a country or territory, with some restrictions applied.

Let’s start the week with some good news, shall we? We have partnered up with the guys at Namecheap to bring you a great little giveaway. The popular domain name registrar and web hosting provider are giving away 5 domain names to BloggingPro readers. The first prize is to win 3 domain names (.com/.net/.org), and […]

When it comes to setting up your own blog, it’s pretty well understood that you need to have your own domain and that it needs to be under your control. However, people view the process of setting up a domain as being completely different from that of setting up hosting. Where most people are meticulous […]

If there is one thing that the recent outages at Amazon Cloud and even the PlayStation Network can show us, it’s that even the best, most reliable companies can have serious problems with their hosting infrstructure and can go down. Unfortunately, as a blogger, you’re just a passenger on someone else’s ship on the Web. […]

Many bloggers, when they first start out, are unsure if they are going to continue blogging over the long term and either don’t want to spend the time or invest the money into securing a domain name of their own. It’s an understandable decision considering that WordPress.com and Blog*Spot, along with a slew of other […]

Previously we discussed the 3 blog laws of hosting, rules that should be followed by all bloggers (regardless of size, financial strength, etc.). What was not addressed however were the general rules one should follow when blogging upon your own domain (regardless of whether you choose to self host or blog upon service hosted platforms […]

When it comes to the art of problogging, many bloggers focus most of their energy on their building up their main blog (or blogs) and forgo ever establishing a personal site of their own. While there is nothing wrong with NOT creating a personal blog, blogging pros would be foolish to avoid securing specific domain […]

With this edition of Blogging Pitfalls, I have to eat a bit of humble pie as I talk about a pitfall I didn’t just fall into, but have had to stick with for five years for various reasons: Picking a bad domain name. How bad did I fall into this one? Though there are many […]

Performancing has recently announced the reopening of the Performancing Marketplace. Prior to its brief hiatus (due to software migration) the Perf Marketplace had been an active portal for buying and selling of blogs, software, and related services. The new Marketplace aims to bring this back. With a free-flowing format (forum-based), Performancing hopes that users can […]